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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Sorry, I beg your pardon, Madam Temporary Speaker. Once again I beg your pardon because I know what it feels likr to be called “Mr.” when you are “Madam” and vice versa when you are on the Chair. I would also like to congratulate my fellow International Foundation Programme (IFP) alumnus, Sen. (Dr.) Zani. You may wonder what IFP is. This was a global scholarship programme for social justice agents that identified people from the inter-ten- year period. Only 4,000 out of seven billion people were identified by the IFP. I was one of them. She is my senior and there are many others who have done that course. Sen. (Dr.) Zani, has you have many firsts. I am a Member of the Speakers Panel and I learned quite a lot of Kiswahili from your father and mother. That is Teresiah K. Zani and Zachariah Zani. It is good to say that because sometimes people forget. Currently, Sen. (Dr.) Zani and I are number one in the number of Bills that we have sponsored to the Senate. She has five and I have five. Again, that is in the spirit of IFP. This is one of the Bills that is transformational in nature. It also happens that you have been nominated twice and I have also been nominated twice, only that you have been nominated by one single party, but Isaack Mwaura has been nominated by two rival parties. They look like siamese twins because of the “handshake.” That shows that there is something peculiar. If that were not to be the case, then we will not be the ones sponsoring five Bills each. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Bill is timely because it seeks to protect small cooperatives from the big ones that have developed cartel-like behaviours where they get money from farmers, for example, and use it as collateral to get loans. They even lend money to the very farmers at an interest, so that people get little money. Sen. (Dr.) Zani may not be praised in the manner she deserves because some of us could be quite voluble and camera-friendly. There are people like Edmund Burke who may not have been known during their times, but today we look at how they influenced The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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